Agenda and draft minutes

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The Health and Wellbeing Board members were senior Council officers, Cabinet Members, and representatives from Healthwatch, Bridge Renewal Trust, and the North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group.

To receive any apologies for absence.

Apologies for absence were received from Cllr Brabazon.

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business. (Late items will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items will be dealt with at agenda item 11).

There were no items of urgent business.

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Cllr Das Neves declared an interest as she was a governor for North London Foundation NHS Trust

To consider any requests received in accordance with Part 4, Section B, Paragraph 29 of the Council’s Constitution.

There were none.

To confirm and sign the minutes of the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting held on 18 09 2025 as a correct record.

It was noted that as mentioned in the minutes that the ICB approved the consultation.

RESOLVED

The minutes of the meeting held on 18th September were approved.

Will Maimaris, Director of Public Health introduced the report for this item.

The following was noted in response to questions from the committee:

 Cllr Das neves thanked the team for neighbourhood working, she

acknowledged the change and restructure to the NHS and systems of

resource. She encouraged further work on the vision and structure for how to

engage with communities and deeply related to the voluntary community

sector. She would like to see a structure which set out how grassroot

organisations were recognised.

 The referral system from GP services to hospital services currently took too

long and was not centralised, which created challenges for residents.

 Better comms between hospital discharge teams and GP practices was

imperative.

 Teams were struggling for new funding and hoped that central government

and the NHS would provide this. Officers relied on time and enthusiasm to

drive improvements, and it was key to find investment for this.

 Officers needed to use accessible language to describe the changes. There

was a partnership board with several groups, this could provide the ability to

bring more resident groups together and enable them to have a more

strategic voice and input into the neighbourhoods work.

Will Maimaris, Director of Health introduced the report for the item:

Comments from the board included

· It was noted that the tobacco control, work could be delivered through neighbourhoods at a very local level, linking back to the previous item on the agenda.

· The smoking cessation service goes out in the community, there were recent engagements in Northumberland Park, Bruce castle, north Middlesex hospital. There was service provision available from Monday to Thursdays 8-7pm, Friday from 9-5, Saturday 10-1pm. This service could be accessed on the phone.

Bryce Tudball, Head of Spatial Planning introduced the item:

Comments and discussions points raised

· The differing sections of the plan were useful; they contributed to conversations around neighbourhoods and long term planning.

· There were issues with disabled accessibility in buildings in Haringey, specifically Tottenham hale.

· From 2027 onwards, the Council were looking to redevelop Alexandra house and the bus station in Wood Green, there were various opportunities on Wood Green High Road.

· As part of the new London plan there would be revised housing targets, which would be closer to 20,000.

· The team had launched 20 consultation events which residents could attend to comment on the plan.

To consider any new items of urgent business admitted at item 4 above.

Members suggested items revolving around children and young people.

Members of the Board are invited to suggest future agenda items.

To note the dates of future meetings:

26^th February 2026

Future agenda items suggested by members were revolved around dementia.

Future meeting dates –

26^th March